Laura Johnston

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I'm Chris Quinn, here with Laura Johnston, Layla Tassi, and Lisa Garvin on a day we are descending very quickly from what seemed like a late summer into clear fall.

Temperatures plummeting today, and it's gloomy and cloudy.

Perfect October day.

That was never the selling point, and so this has gone to court.

I, I, every- there's- everybody's predicting the Ohio Supreme Court is going to overturn this.

And, and, and Laura, why don't you talk about that? 'Cause I think there's a serious reason for them not to.

But go ahead and say why the belief is they'll overturn it.

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I'm Chris Quinn, here with Laura Johnston, Lisa Garvin, and Leila Atassi.

Laura, Donald Trump rallied in Youngstown Monday and talked about John Husted's ass.

I'm just repeating what the president said, so I think it's still clean enough for the podcast.

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Laura, as you know, we long ago decided to stop reporting political horse race polls because they're pretty much useless.

They always seem to get it wrong.

Election Day always reveals that.

We talked last week about Akron Children's Hospital moving into Greater Cleveland with its big property purchase in South Euclid.

Turns out it's making inroads on the west side as well.

Where, Laura?

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Like I said, Lisa, he's written 15 stories about issues in the governor's race as chosen by our readers, the last of them published Sunday.

It's about the income tax.

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Lisa, readers were asking, so we published a story Wednesday about the $500 checks Donald Trump has sent to about 70,000 Ohioans, along with a letter trashing Joe Biden yet again.

What's this about?

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And Lisa, this is literally rarer than a Cleveland Browns victory this year, but do we have a political debate on the calendar in Ohio? Which candidates have broken with the common practice these days of declining to face off in person?

And these are two strong candidates, particularly the Democrat.

Yesterday, we questioned why Donald Trump is campaigning in Ohio for Republicans, given how much people have grown to despise our president.

There's someone even more unlikable, though, who's also making Ohio trips.

Laura, who is it? And he, is he also so lacking in self-awareness that he cannot see the damage he does every time he shows up here?

Well, probably not, or maybe he doesn't care because he thinks he's great.

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Laura, less than a year after Mark Zuckerberg announced his plans to have Facebook invest in the Lake County nuclear plant and expand its capacity, the federal government is adding a bunch of money.

Kinda hard to parse where one ends and the other begins.

What will this money do?

They just don't understand what it's like living in America today, where every time you turn around, everything's doubled in price.

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The Guardians are playing the White Sox this week, unfortunately losing to the White Sox this week, not the Yankees, Laura, so this seems premature.

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I'm Chris Quinn, here with Laura Johnston, Lisa Garvin, and Layla Tassi, and we're all hoping you enjoyed the weather this past weekend as much as we did.

Now it's time for the news.

Reporter Rich Exner did something I've not seen before, Laura.

Cataloged all the property tax incentives that the new Browns stadium will receive, in part because of very old decisions made about-

[laughs]

Bizarro.

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The couple of days I was gone, it looks like you had a lot of fun with it and had some wonderful conversations.

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US Senator John Husted [laughs] is desperate, desperate, desperate to get some good news.

I compared him to somebody who opens up all the windows and doors, lets all the rats come in, and then says, "Hey, I'm shutting all the doors and sealing off the house, so elect me." But it turns out he really couldn't shut the doors and windows, could he, Laura?

No. [laughs] No, he didn't get his bill across, mainly because it had no teeth, and Democrats said, "Hey, this is only a election timing messaging bill." And the idea was it would require states to consider making data centers cover their own power costs.